CLASSES RESUMED AUGUST 17TH

The Adair County
R-II School year began on Tuesday, August 16 for teachers and staff with an
in-service beginning at 8:30 a.m.Classes resumed for students on Wednesday, August 17.With the new school year, we would like to welcome
the following new employees:

Brent Doolin will be our K-12 principal.Brent received his Bachelor of Arts Degree
in Business Education from Buena Vista University and his Master of Education
Degree in Secondary Administration from William Woods University.He was a 9-12 business education teacher at
Clark County R-I for seven years.He
comes to us from Atlanta C-3 where he had worked the last four years as their
K-12 principal.

Diane McGinnis has been employed as a 7-12 English
teacher.She received her Bachelor of
Arts degree in English and her Master of Arts Degree in Education from Truman
State University.

Jared Shulse has been hired to teach K-12 music.He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in
Music and his Master of Arts Degree in Education from Truman State
University.Some of you may remember
Mr. Shulse as he had worked with our students as a piano accompanist.

Anna Nelson has been employed to teach sixth grade.She received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in
Elementary Education from Buena Vista University.Mrs. Nelson worked as a paraprofessional for our district during
the 2008-2009 school year and completed her student teaching last fall under
the supervision of Mrs. Louise Smith.

Tara Stutsman has been hired to teach elementary
resource.Ms. Stutsman received her
Bachelor of Arts Degree in Elementary Education from Buena Vista
University.She comes to us from Macon
R-I where she had been a 6th/7th grade special education teacher for the last
two years.

Fran Lambert has been employed as a half time Spanish
teacher.She received her Bachelor of
Science Degree from Truman State University.Mrs. Lambertis certified in
French, English, Spanish and English for Speakers of other Languages.She brings 25+ years of teaching experience
to the classroom along with the personal experience from her travels and
studies abroad.

Jill Mason has been hired as our Parents as Teachers
educator.Jill is an August 2011
graduate of Moberly Area Community College with an Associate of Arts Degree and
has plans to continue her education toward a Bachelor of Arts degree in either
Business or Education.

Amanda Mills has been employed as a first grade
paraprofessional.Amanda is a graduate
of BHS and holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Dietetics from Central
Missouri State University.

Lajeana Coin returns to the district as a bus driver.Lajeana drove a route for us from 1999-2006
and also served as a paraprofessional from 1997-1999.She left to pursue other interests and has spent the last three
years driving for Weber Bus, Inc. in Kirksville.

Tony Keene has been hired to coach our junior high and
varsity boys basketball teams.He
received his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Business Administration from
Fontbonne College in St. Louis.He is
currently owner/operator of Baker Signs & Graphics in Kirksville.

Please join us in welcoming these new employees to our
district.

BREAKFAST/LUNCH MENU

Breakfast each
day includes milk and juice.Students
maychoose cereal instead of the
breakfast item offered.The following
items are offered daily for students to choose from in lieu of the main lunch
entrée:yogurt or a peanut butter and
jelly sandwich.

HOMELESS STUDENTS

If you are homeless
and going to school, let the school know about it.Being homeless and going to school would be hard for any child
regardless of age or grade level.Many
things that you normally would not have worried about before become issues,
such as transportation, space to do homework and school attendance.Some families are afraid to let their
child’s school know that they are in between places for fear of being judged
or, even worse, being reported to DFS.

There are some
things you should know about being homeless and going to public school:

There are laws that
protect your child’s rights and your rights as a parent to be treated as any
other participant of the Adair County R-II School.

The school district
has a program to help homeless families with resources to help your child stay
on track and can direct you to agencies that can help you during your period of
homelessness.

It is your choice to
let the school district know that you are homeless.

The school district,
like any other agency that mandates reports, must have a reason to call
DFS.Homelessness, depending on the
circumstances, is not grounds to make a DFS report.

Homeless students
have the right to:

Be enrolled without
a birth certificate, immunization record or other required documentation.

Attend the school
that he/she attended before the family lost its home.

Be transferred to a
school closer to where he/she is staying now.

Get assistance with
free transportation to and from school.

Have access to
materials such as books and supplies to ensure an equal opportunity to
participate in school.

Receive any special
services that he/she might need.These
services include:

1.Special education

2.Bilingual services

3.Gifted and talented education services

4.Free lunch and breakfast program

5.Counseling services

6.Before and after school programs

7.Tutoring services

Attend school free
of judgment.

Parents and
guardians of homeless children have the right to:

Be involved in your
child’s education.

Be notified of and
involved in any decision that your child’s school makes regarding his or her
social or academic career.

Request a Student
Alert team meeting for your child and include people of support. These may be a
social worker or counselor from an agency you are working with or someone that
has tutored your child at an after school program.

For More Information
Contact:

Shelly Shipman,
Homeless Coordinator

Adair County R-II
School

205 West Dewey
Street

Brashear, MO 63533

Telephone (660)
323-5272 ext. 10

ASBESTOS REPORT

The district must
ensure that students and/or their guardians are informed about asbestos
inspections, reinspections, surveillance, response actions and post-response
action activities at least once a year.

The most recent
Asbestos Reinspection will be available in the district office for public
viewing during business hours.

THANK YOU

Rex and Keetha Sykes
for their donation of a tree planted in memory of their son, Jeremy, a 1995
graduate of BHS.

Salt River 4-H for
their donations to help beautify our campus.They planted flowers along the front of our school and also painted the
picnic tables and a storage shed at the ballfield.

Don Wilburn, Lonnie
and Kim Salter & family, Betty Stephens, Rhonda Fisher, Paula Clarkson, and
Lisa Fisher for their donations to help send Jay Scudder to the National
Leadership Conference June 28-July 1 in Orlando, Florida.FBLA would also like to thank all those who
purchased Krispy Kreme doughnuts in support of Jay’s travels.

Brashear Community
Bible Church for their generous donation to help serve the needs of our
students.

Brent and Shirlene
Hettinger and Todd and Traci Hill & family for their donations to the
scholarship fund in memory of Bonnie Turner.

Adam Bruner, 1992
graduate of BHS, for his donation of a euphonium to the music department.

Don Reynolds, Paul
Stuart, Brad Trent, George O’Haver, and Tyson Simmons from Ameren Missouri for
donating their time to replace lamps and fixtures at the ball field.We would also like to thank AmerenMissouri
for the use of their boom trucks to complete this task.

BUSY BEES NEWS

Busy Bees is a
preschool program for children in our district ages 3-5 years old.This year Busy Bees will meet on Monday and
Tuesday mornings from 8:15-11:15 a.m. in the Parents as Teachers (PAT)
classroom.

Busy Bees will meet
for the first time on Tuesday, September 27.The annual preschool screening will be held on Monday, September
26.If you have not been contacted for
a screening appointment or would like more information about our preschool
program, please call Ms. Jill Mason at 323-5272 ext. 33 or e-mail jill_mason@brashear.k12.mo.us.

A+ SCHOOLS PROGRAM

All students in
grades 9-12 not signed into an agreement with the A+ Program need to do
so.Come by the Learning Center anytime
and ask for an agreement.If parents
would like one mailed home, just let me know.

To be certified as
an A+ student, an individual must do the following:

§Sign an A+ Student contract.

§Enter into a written agreement with
BHS prior to the last day of the first semester of the senior year.

§Attend an A+ designated high school
for the three consecutive years prior to graduation.

TITLE I SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT

Dear Patron,

The goal of the No
Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2001 is to ensure that all children in this
country receive a quality education.Under NCLB, each state is required to assess all schools to determine if
each school has made adequate yearly progress (AYP) toward meeting the academic
testing standards and additional measures set by the state.AYP decisions are based on the results of
state testing in communication arts and math and the school’s attendance rate
or graduation rate.If the school has
not made AYP for two consecutive years, it is considered “in need of
improvement”.

Based on the results
of the 2010-2011 academic testing in communication arts and math and the
district’s/LEA’s attendance rate and graduation rate, the Adair County R-II
Elementary did make adequate yearly progress.However, Adair County R-II Elementary must make adequate yearly progress
for two consecutive years before exiting school improvement status.The district remains in a delayed status
during the 2011-12 school year.During
the 2009-10 school year the Adair County R-II Elementary did not make adequate
yearly progress for the following reasons:

1. In grades 3 – 6,
MAP scores in the area of Communication Arts did not meet the state minimum
level of 67.4% of students in Proficient/Advanced levels.Our results were 45.9% in overall student
population grades 3-6.

2. In grades 3 – 6,
MAP scores across the State also did not meet the state minimum level.The State overall in Communication Arts
grades 3 – 6 scored 53.6% of students in Proficient/Advanced levels.

Data is collected on
the student population as a whole and also on subgroups within the
building.Subgroups are those groups
designated by DESE.These groups are
counted when the group has 30 or more students within that group (Free/Reduced;
IEP students; etc.).

Because of this
designation, the school is considered to be in Level 1 of School Improvement
and must develop a plan for improvement.One important component of this plan will be parent involvement in both
the development and implementation of the plan.

“School Choice” is
also an option for those districts with two or more buildings serving the same
population of students.This choice is
not available for our district because we only have one elementary building in
our district and therefore we are unable to offer public school choice.

We encourage you to
become involved with your child’s school to support school improvement.If you would like to become more involved in
your child’s school, please consider the following:attend student/parent involvement nights, maintain communication
with your child’s teacher, and serve on parent/school committees.Other activities will be planned in
accordance to our School Improvement Plan.

Sincerely,

Shelly Shipman

Superintendent

TIGER PRIDE

Jay Scudder, 2011
graduate of BHS, competed against over 150 students from across the nation and
beyond in the National Leadership Conference competitive event, Business
Calculations held June 28-July 1, 2011 in Orlando, Florida.At the Awards of Excellence ceremony that
caps the conference, Jay was named as the 9th place finisher in the event.Jay was also recently named as one of 22
GE-Reagan Foundation Scholars.The 22
students recognized are the first recipients of this scholarship created by
generous grants from GE and the Reagan Foundation to honor Reagan’s 100th
birthday.This program will provide 200
$40,000 scholarships over a 10 year period to students who demonstrate
exemplary leadership, drive, integrity, and citizenship.Jay and his family were flown to Los Angeles
for a retreat where they toured the Reagan Library and participated in
educational simulations.His
scholarship award was presented at an awards banquet held in the Air Force One
display room at the Reagan Library with former California Governor Pete Wilson
presenting the keynote address.Along
with his scholarship, Jay was presented with a book personally signed by Nancy
Reagan.Congratulations to Jay for both
of these achievements!

PTC ORGANIZING

A Parent Teacher
Club is being organized this school year for any and all parents, students,
teachers, community members, and families who would like to support our
school.They will be sponsoring a
Trivia Night, a carnival, and more.A
"Birthday/Snack Pantry" is being collected to help celebrate
birthdays when a child can't bring a treat, when a child forgets a snack or a
class earns a reward.Any granola bars,
fruit snacks, cookies, crackers, etc. are being accepted.The club plans to meet once a quarter.Any and all support is welcome.The club feels there is a need to support
our school and we can all make a difference.If you have any questions or would like to join, please contact Lisa
Fisher at 323-5272 ext. 22 or Sara Erwin at 323-4920.

ACT OFFERED AT BHS

This year students
will be able to register to take the ACT test right here at BHS!We are now considered a national test
site.Students will register for the
test as normal and choose our Test Center Code:239110.Check out www.act.org
for more information and/or registration materials.

FROM THE DESK OF THE SUPERINTENDENT

Welcome Back!It’s that time of the year again!School has begun and students and teachers
alike are getting back into the routine of school.It’s going to be an exciting year and I am looking forward to the
many new challenges and happenings coming up in the 2011-2012 school year.

This was a summer of
change for our district. Many new faces filling the spots of employees who
because of retirement, family relocation, or new jobs have left our district.We are wishing only the best for those
friends who have decided to leave our district and wholeheartedly welcome our
new friends.It will be a GREAT year
for everyone!

If you have any
questions, concerns, or issues you would like to bring to my attention, please
contact me at (660) 323-5272 ext. 10 or shelly_shipman@brashear.k12.mo.us.

“Life is not
measured by the number of

breaths we take,
but by the moments that

take our breath
away!”

PUBLIC NOTICE

All responsible public agencies are required to locate,
evaluate, and identify children with disabilities who are under the
jurisdiction of the agency, regardless of the severity of the disability,
including children attending private schools, children who live outside the
district but are attending a private school within the district, highly mobile
children, such as migrant and homeless children, and children who are wards of
the state, and children who are suspected of having a disability and in need of
special education even though they are advancing from grade to grade.The Adair County R-II School District
assures that it will provide a free, appropriate public education (FAPE) to all
eligible children with disabilities between the ages of 3 and 21 under its jurisdiction.Disabilities include autism, deaf/blindness,
emotional disorders, hearing impairment and deafness, mental
retardation/intellectual disability, multiple disabilities, orthopedic
impairment, other health impairments, specific learning disabilities, speech or
language impairment, traumatic brain injury, visual impairment/blindness and
young child with a developmental delay.

The Adair County R-II School District assures that it will
provide information and referral services necessary to assist the State in the
implementation of early intervention services for infants and toddlers eligible
for the Missouri First Steps program.

The Adair County R-II School District assures that
personally identifiable information collected, used, or maintained by the
agency for the purposes of identification, evaluation, placement or provision
of FAPE of children with disabilities may be inspected and/or reviewed by their
parents/guardians.Parents/guardians
may request amendment to the educational record if the parent/guardian believes
the record is inaccurate, misleading, or violates the privacy or other rights
of their child.Parents have the right
to file complaints with the U.S. Department of Education or the Missouri
Department of Elementary and Secondary Education concerning alleged failures by
the district to meet the requirements of the Family Educational Rights and
Privacy Act (FERPA).

The Adair County R-II School District has developed a Local
Compliance Plan for the implementation of State Regulations for the Individuals
with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).This plan contains the agency’s policies and procedures regarding
storage, disclosure to third parties, retention and destruction of personally
identifiable information and the agency’s assurances that services are provided
in compliance with the General Education Provision Act (GEPA).This plan may be reviewed during regular
school hours on days school is in session in the Office of the Superintendent
of Schools.